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Unbiased Elimination of Negative Weights in Monte Carlo Samples

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arxiv 2109.07851 v2 pith:2ZWFJVDJ submitted 2021-09-16 hep-ph hep-ex

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We propose a novel method for the elimination of negative Monte Carlo event weights. The method is process-agnostic, independent of any analysis, and preserves all physical observables. We demonstrate the overall performance and systematic improvement with increasing event sample size, based on predictions for the production of a W boson with two jets calculated at next-to-leading order perturbation theory.

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